Good food, FHE, & Rydon walking

I LOVE SELF-FEEDING! Smooshed banana, tilapia bits, and cottage cheese. A win all around! He did SO GOOD! In all he ate about 2T cottage cheese,  1/4 tilapia filet, and half a small banana.
Our hodge podge FHE was painting matching "neers," watching Cinderella, and eating ice cream sandwiches.
Rydon has been trying to walk a ton today.  He goes about 3-4 feet before sitting down, but then he gets up and tries again. It's awesome!

Trip to CA for cleft surgery on March 25th

Cleft surgery got cancelled due to a cough that started five hours before seeing the anesthesiologist at Shriners. There is a risk of respiratory complications because of all the swelling after surgery, so the Dr. wanted us to cancel. We decided to go see the LDS temple and the Santa Monica Pier after the Dr. visit because we have always wanted to go see both those places. Traffic was SO BAD! It took us 1.5 hours to drive the 37 miles from the hospital to the temple and 2.5 hours to drive almost that far again to our friends house in Santa Clarita. It was an extremely disappointing day, but we had some fun in spite of it. A fun night having dinner and catching up with the Jones family...who we haven't seen in about 9 years, was really nice. I love having good friends!!!

 Santa Monica Pier

 The temple is HUGE!!

 The Los Angeles Temple is the white stick right behind the van.

Jones' house in Santa Clarita. He LOVED petting their fluffy cat.

Grand Canyon Day 2

Desert view watch tower, visitors center, geology museum, and pizza dinner at the Maswick Lodge. Gideon was sick the entire day. Every time we got in the car or on a bus he fell asleep almost immediately. I felt bad, but he did so good. He hardly complained, just slept every chance he got.

Grand Canyon Day 1

Cracker Barrel for dinner in Kingman, 

Car racing and baby walking

                         Plasma car racing at our friends house on Sunday.
Taking a few steps. He has been doing this since just after Brady left at the beginning of March, but I have never caught a good video of his new skills. The most steps he has taken at once is six. He'll be fully walking before we know it.

Two more teeth

Yesterday at church I heard Rydon grinding his teeth, but he didn't have any top teeth to do that....until I checked his mouth. Sure enough, on the right side a front tooth and the side one next to it are in! This explains the copious amounts of burgers the last few weeks. During relief society a lady sitting next to me kissed his forehead and left evidence. All the women, young and  old, sure love on this little man.

First haircut

My friend and her husband, our home teacher, came over Saturday morning to hold Ayla and Rydon down so I could cut their hair. It was a busy morning having done the three older boys earlier. It was Rydon's first haircut. I cut all the red hair off and now he looks like a little kid instead of a baby. Amazing what a haircut can do. Now he looks like Gideon.